Xenophobic stereotyping in the media is a common and increasing phenomenon.This contrastive study examines xenophobia presence in the newspapers articles that are published by the American New York Times newspaper, the British Independent newspaper and the China Daily newspaper on COVID 19. The study essentially combined critical discourse analysis and the moral panics theory to explain the language used and subsequent impact of the media in shaping xenophobia. The study reveals that newspaper coverage have different levels of xenophobia. The study suggests a scale to measure the xenophobia in coverage which can be applied on all case studies not only on COVID 19 articles.